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Message #00094
Re: Desktop virtualization
Hello,
On 01/16/2013 04:20 PM, Zieba, Pawel wrote:
Maybe a DaaS would be a good option?
We are evaluating this concept right now.
Which DaaS are you evaluating? I would love to have some first-hand
experience from someone I know.
On 01/16/2013 06:26 PM, David Burke wrote:
Proxmox - This is my preferred solution for server virtualization.
It's a gui for KVM and openvz. I minimally trained sys admin can set
up a new VM in minutes with it.
I understand it misses the desktop virtualization features like dynamic
VM provisioning and some user-portal?
LTSP - Have you considered this? It's not virtualization it's just
multi user Linux. I use it in a computer lab type scenario. I've
posted about it
http://davidmburke.com/2012/02/26/computer-lab-on-the-cheap/
Thanks for the link, I was astonished by the fact that LTSP has such an
extensive documentation site on help.ubuntu.com, I envy them :)
The issues it has (video processing, external devices are hit or miss)
are likely going to be issues with any solution for desktop
virtualization.
I guess yes-and-no. Thanks to desktop virtualization we got those design
that offloads video processing to the client (terminal). However, I am
aware that you can use the SPICE protocol to pass audio&video from a
physical machine, though I guess this is not that often used.
I am also a fool and don't use a server with a decent GPU made for
this sort of thing.
Let somebody correct me if I am wrong, but I do not know how the server
GPU has anything to do with the client display. You are not using the
server's monitor anyway, right? I might be missing something, I guess
also there was a reason for Martinx Thiago to provide the multiple GPUs
to his server. Anyone has an idea?
Cheers,
Ballock
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